FEATURED AUTHORS + ARTISTS
While not exhaustive, this list offers a glimpse into our cultural and literary explorations over the years.
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Fiction
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Beloved – Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
The Coldest Winter Ever – Sista Souljah
My Soul to Keep – Tananarive Due
Breath, Eyes, Memory – Edwidge Danticat
Corregidora – Gayl Jones
Brown Girl, Brownstones – Paule Marshall
The Salt Eaters – Toni Cade Bambara
An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo
Sula – Toni Morrison
"Girl" – Jamaica Kincaid
“Jack in the Pot” – Dorothy West
A Curious Land – Susan Muaddi Darraj
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Non-Fiction
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Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power – Lalah Delia
Let Your Fears Make You Fierce – Koya Webb
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist – Sesali Bowen
Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde
All About Love – bell hooks
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens – Alice Walker
Girls Who Aren’t Afraid to Curse When Communicating with God – Trelani Michelle
Hunger – Roxane Gay
Balance Your Shit – Rachelle PeanAll the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave – Hull, Scott & Smith
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Harriet Ann Jacobs
"The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" – Audre Lorde
"A Black Feminist's Search for Sisterhood" – Michele Wallace
"Don't Be a Fast Girl" – Dr. Stacey Patton
Conversations with James Baldwin – James Baldwin​
Without Sanctuary – James Allen & John Lewis​
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Poetry
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Blessing the Boats – Lucille Clifton
Our Men Do Not Belong to Us – Warsan Shire
Salt – Nayyirah Waheed
Bone – Yrsa Daley-Ward
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter – Aja Monet
Black Girl Magic – Breakbeat Poets Collective
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head – Warsan Shire
"A Note on My Son's Face" – Toi Derricotte
"Strange Fruit" – Billie Holiday
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Drama
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If Pretty Hurts, Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka – Tori Sampson
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
– Ntozake Shange
Hoodoo Love – Katori Hall
Sunset Baby – Dominique Morisseau
In the Blood – Suzan-Lori Parks
Blue Eyed Black Boy – Georgia Douglas Johnson
Color Struck – Zora Neale Hurston
Crumbs from the Table of Joy – Lynn Nottage
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Visual Art
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"Now and Forever More" – Lina Viktor
"Royal" – Lina Viktor
"Eyes Married Now" – Salkis Re
"Black Gurl" – Salkis Re
"Jet Blue #1" – Mickalene Thomas
"Clarivel #5" – Mickalene Thomas
"Famous Statue Damn" – Lorna Simpson
"What Can I Do About All This Injustice?" – Valerie Maynard
Multiple Painting Series – Megan Lewis
The Kitchen Table Series – Carrie Mae Weems
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Film
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Pariah – Dee Rees
Eve’s Bayou - Kasi Lemmons
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am – Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Carmen Jones – Otto Preminger
What Happened, Miss Simone? – Liz Garbus
Disclosure – Sam Feder
Forty-Year-Old Version – Radha Blank
Rocks – Theresa Ikoko & Claire Wilson
The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion – Lisa Cortes & Farah X
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Album
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Mother – Cleo Sol
Lemonade – Beyoncé
CTRL – SZA
LEGACY! LEGACY! – Jamila Woods
Nasty – Rico Nasty
My Life – Mary J. Blige
Chilombo – Jhene Aiko
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Lauryn Hill
Heaux Tails – Jazmine Sullivan
After the Rain – Yung Baby Tate
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Spoken Word & Comedy
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"Rat Ode" – Elizabeth Acevedo
"Hair Ode" – Elizabeth Acevedo
Stand-Up – Zainab Johnson
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